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Introducing the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard
Running Exchange 2013 CU8 or higher? Download the new wizard!The Exchange hybrid team has been working hard over the past year getting the 3rd version of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) ready....
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Ask The Perf Guy: What’s The Story With Hyperthreading and Virtualization?
There’s been a fair amount of confusion amongst customers and partners lately about the right way to think about hyperthreading when virtualizing Exchange. Hopefully I can clear up that confusion very...
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Released: September 2015 Quarterly Exchange Updates
The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of our latest quarterly update for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 11. Cumulative Update 10 for...
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New Public Folder Picker for OWA
The Exchange Public Folder team has been working on improving the Public Folder experience in OWA. Today we are announcing a new feature available in Exchange Server 2013 CU10, Exchange Server 2016, as...
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Exchange Server 2016: Forged in the cloud. Now available on-premises.
Exchange Server 2016 is here and available to download starting today! We’ve spent nearly three years iterating, polishing and refining Exchange since the release of Exchange 2013, and we are excited...
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Namespace Planning in Exchange 2016
If you are like the vast majority of our customers, you already have some version(s) of Exchange deployed in your environment. Depending on the version, you may have different namespace requirements...
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No new security vulnerability in Outlook Web Access (OWA)
Recently reports of a new security vulnerability in OWA, a component of Microsoft Exchange Server, have been circulated throughout the internet. Microsoft considers the security of our products to be a...
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Load Balancing in Exchange 2016
Like Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 does not require session affinity at the load balancing layer.To understand this statement better, and see how this impacts your designs, we need to look at how...
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Introducing Public Folder “Lost and Found” functionality
What is this aboutIn both Exchange Server 2016 and Office 365, recovering a deleted Public Folder Mailbox presents the possibility for a recovered Secondary PF Mailbox to contain Public Folders that...
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The Exchange 2016 Preferred Architecture
The Preferred Architecture (PA) is the Exchange Engineering Team’s best practice recommendation for what we believe is the optimum deployment architecture for Exchange 2016, and one that is very...
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Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator Update
v7.8 of the calculator introduces support for Exchange 2016! Yes, that’s right, you don’t need a separate calculator, v7.8 and later supports Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016 deployments. Moving forward,...
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Ask the Perf Guy: Sizing Exchange 2016 Deployments
Uh oh. You are probably thinking to yourself, here comes another one of those incredibly long blog posts about sizing. Thankfully, it’s not. If you want to fully understand the sizing process for...
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Enabling BitLocker on Exchange Servers
The Exchange Preferred Architecture, for both Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016, recommends enabling BitLocker on fixed data drives that store Exchange database files. Over the years, there...
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Exchange 2016 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication
With the release of Exchange Server 2016, I thought it would be best to document our guidance around utilizing Kerberos authentication for MAPI clients. Like with the last two releases, the solution...
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Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2016 Coexistence Environment with Exchange...
Our goal with this article is to articulate the various client connectivity scenarios you may encounter in your Exchange 2016 designs. To that end, this article will begin with a walk through of a...
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Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2016 Coexistence Environment with Exchange...
Our goal with this article is to articulate the various connectivity scenarios you may encounter in your Exchange 2016 designs. To that end, this article will begin with a walk through of a deployment...
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Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2016 Coexistence Environment with Mixed...
Our goal with this article is to articulate the various connectivity scenarios you may encounter in your Exchange 2016 designs. To that end, this article will begin with a walk through of a deployment...
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Running PowerShell cmdlets for large numbers of users in Office 365
When PowerShell was introduced back in Exchange 2007 it was a boon too all us Exchange administrators. It allowed us as admins to manage large numbers of objects quickly and seamlessly. We have come to...
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Modern Attachments for Exchange 2016 Hybrid Customers
There is a new option that has been made available for our Office 365 customers that allows you to take advantage of integrating the OneDrive for Business attachment experience directly from your OWA...
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Exchange Active Directory Deployment Site
When installing a brand new Exchange server, there are several things that you should consider. One of them is that things will go smoother if you deploy a new currently supported version of Exchange...
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